JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: January 30, 1969
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Thursday - 30 January 1969
10. I I Talked to Mr. J. R. Blandford,
Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, several times during
the day concerning Committee plans and schedule of hearings and briefings.
In response to his request, I advised that the Director's schedule for
the coming week is almost complete with only Thursday morning available.
Friday morning could be scheduled by rearranging of present commitments.
Mr. Blandford stated the Chairman's appreciation for this advice but
emphasized that there are no hearings scheduled for next week. This
guidance was requested in the event that the Committee program starts
firming up. A present information schedule of the Committee does not
contemplate the beginning of hearings until after the Lincoln Day Recess.
11. I II contacted various members of the House
leadership, Committee chairmen, Agency Committee members and friends
of Mr. Allen Dulles on Capitol Hill during the morning and advised them
of Mr. Dulles' death. The response by the various members in the
House evidenced the high esteem held for Mr. Dulles.
12. I IMr. Clem Palazola, of the Atomic Energy_
Commission, called to advise us that he had been in touch with
of our CI Staff, on the case of in response to a query on this
case from George Murphy, on the staff of the Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy. Palazola was merely alerting us to this in the event we should be
contacted by Murphy on the case. I took this opportunity to inform Palazola
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13. I I Advised the offices of the Senate leadership,
appropriate CIA members, and friends of Allen Dulles' on the Hill of Mr.
Dulles' death and the arrangements which have been made for funeral services.
14. (Secret - GLC) Accompanied Mr, I of OCI, to a
briefing of William Spell, Staff Assistant to Senator John Stennis (D. , Miss. ).
The subject of the briefing was the Middle East. This was done in response
to Spell's earlier request. The briefing session lasted for ptwo rovide hours and was
very warmly received by Spell. Mr. Spell
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with some unclassified information on the iddle East countries which might
be useful to him. He also advised him that there are several classified studies
now in preparation which we could make available to him in the near future.
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Wednesday - 29 January 1969
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25X1 13. Met with Miss Jackie Simpson,
in the office of Representative William Anderson (D. , Tenn.), and in
response to their buckslip transmittal, provided a copy of the unclassified
blue booklet on the CIA and a reprint copy of the U. S. NEWS & WORLD
REPORT article, "What's CIA, " which was a 1966 interview with Admiral
STATOTHR Raborn. Miss Simpson thanked me for our assistance and indicated that
she felt the items provided were adequate for response to their constituent,
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15.1 et separately with Mr. J. R. Blandford, Chief
Counsel, and r, ran atinshek, House Armed Services Committee,
and briefed them concerning Mr. Kosygin's absence from public view;
Soviet simulated strike missions off the North American coast; Liao Hou-Shu
defection in the Hague; and Soviet use of the "May" patrol plane.
STATOTHR Received from Mr. Blandford, a copy of a letter forwarded by the
Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force to Mr. Blandford regarding
FE Division has been advised.
Mr. Blan or advised that the caucus by the Democrats will be
completed probably during the day today and that the Armed Services Com-
mittee will probably have its organizational meeting on Monday. Committee
strength will be continued at 40 members.
25X1 16. I I Met with Mr. Robert Michaels, House Appropria-
tions Committee staff, who advised that although Chairman Mahon's schedule
is very tight, he might desire a short meeting during the coming week between
himself, Mr. Lipscomb and the Director. He noted, however, that this is
purely speculative at the moment and no action should be taken until he has
had a chance to check further with the Chairman.
I briefed Mr. Michaels on the following items: Mr. Kosygin's absence
from public view; Soviet simulated strike missions off the North American
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patrol plane in ASW.
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Tuesday - 28 January 1969
3. Talked to Chairman L. Mendel
Rivers, who advised that he will be tied up all day due to the caucus
which started at ten o'clock this morning. He asked that I call tomorrow
morning, that he would certainly like to see Admiral Taylor and spend
a few minutes with him before the weekend. I thanked the Chairman and
told him I would be back in touch with him tomorrow.
4. Scheduled a meeting for 10:00 a. m. ,
3 February, for and myself to meet with Mr. Frank Slatinshek,
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and review with him the
Agency retirement legislation and appropriate Agency personnel policies.
Mr. Slatinshek's new assignment within the Committee includes back-
stopping Mr. Blandford on Agency matters.
25X1 5, I I Received a call from Mr. J. R. Blandford,
Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, who advised that he
has received another transmittal from the Secretary of the Air Force
STATOTHR concerning the case of and his alimony problems.
Mr. Blandford advised that me CFiairnnni not particularly interested
in what resolution is achieved on this case but would appreciate settlement
in one fashion or another.
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6. Received a call from Mrs. Crous,
in the office of Senator Sparkman, who advised that a sealed letter had
been received by the Senator for transmittal to the Latin Affairs Officer
of the Agency. The latter will be transmitted to Mr. Maury with a covering
note from the Senator's office.
7. Spoke to Representative Gilbert Gude
(R., Md.), and furnished him with additional facts concerning George
Carver, which could not be included in the formal nomination for the
Arthur Flemming Award for security reasons. Gude thanked me for
bringing this to his attention but was noncommittal with respect to the
Award.
8. Representative Bill Alexander
(D. , Ark.) was pleased to accept my invitation to breakfast at the Agency
on 4 February. Representatives Anderson (D., Calif.) and Chappell
(D., Fla.) and Mikva (D. , Ill.) were unavailable but the time was blocked
on their calendars and I will confirm later.
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Thursday - 23 January 1969
5. I I Messrs. Warner and poke to
Frank McNamara, Staff Director, HCUA, concerning a possible amend-
ment to the Internal Security Act of 1950 dealing with the unauthorized
disclosure of information. McNamara was most receptive to the suggestion
and saw no problems in handling it without involving the Agency. McNamara
thought it would be a good idea if we were to talk to J. Sourwine, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee staff, concerning the amendment once it
has been introduced on the House side. McNamara also suggested that we
talk to Walter Yeagley at the Department of Justice before the amendment
is considered by the Committee.
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6. Spoke with Ed Braswell, Senate Armed
Services Committee staff, concerning the transfer of credit and minimum
guarantee proposals being reported by the Social Security Administration to
House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees. Mr. Braswell saw
no problem in including the CIA retirement system along with the civil service
and foreign service systems in these proposals. He thanked us for being in
touch on this.
25X1 7.1 Met with Mr. Robert Michaels, House Appro-
priations Committee staff, who advised that representatives of Mr. Warnke's
office had met with him on the 8th of January and cleared the final transfer
of funds supplementing the McNamara /T idemand Agreement of January 1968
in the amount of $2 million. This $2 million is in addition to the previous
$1. 5 million supplement. It is Mr. Michael's understanding that negotiations
were completed and agreement reached by the Defense Minister and Depart-
ment of Defense representatives during the week of January 17. I thanked
Mr. Michaels for the information.
I reviewed with Mr. Michaels the Chieu Hoi of the government of
Vietnam and the monthly rate of returnees during the last several years. Mr.
Michaels had no particular question. I also briefed Mr. Michaels on the
following items: (a) Soviet difficulties with the SL-12; (b) possible increases
in Soviet military aid to Cuba; (c) the absence of Kosygin from the Moscow
celebration for the Soyuz cosmonauts; and (d) possible additional Arab terror-
ist attacks on El Al aircraft.
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8.1 I Met with Mrs. Coralee Bull, Personal
Secretary to Chairman Rivers, who advised that the Chairman's schedule
for next week is quite unsettled. She also advised that he plans to be away
from the city tomorrow. I will check with the Chairman's office on Monday
and schedule a meeting for Admiral Taylor.
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Tuesday - 21 January 1969
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1. Representative Donald Riegle (R., Mich.)
called to inquire whether the Agency might have any requests to levy on
his Administrative Assistant, Carl Blake, during a projected trip to
Vietnam during February. I told Riegle I was almost certain there were
none but that I would check and be back in touch.
2. I uIn response to his call Friday, met with
Representative William G. Bray (R., Ind.) and his Administrative Assist-
ant, Mr. Bruce Merkle, and discussed some parts of Mr. Bray's expanded
draft of a paper on attacks of the New Left on CIA. Mr. Bray reiterated
that he accepts complete responsibility upon publication for any statements
made in the paper but desires to avoid at least those pitfalls that would be 25X1A
obvious to experienced Agency eyes.
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is the daughter of a very old amily, who are close friends 216
of Mr. Bray. A personnel interview arranged for with
Mr. for Wednesday, 22 January at 11:00 a. m.
3. Met with Mr. J. R. Blandford, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, who advised that no determinations
will be made on scheduling of Committee briefings until after the Commit-
tee is established Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. I also inquired
of Mr. Blandford whether there was any assistance or information tdhe
Chairman desires concerning the case of
reviewed the facts briefly with him. Mr. B andlor a vise although
he may have had a discussion with Air Force representatives, he does
not remember the case and requested that I brief him after receipt of the
correspondence which is being forwarded to Legislative Counsel from the
Department of the Air Force.
Also briefed Mr. Blandford on several items of current intelli-
gence. See Memorandum for the Record for listing of the items.
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Thursday - 16 January 1969
3. I I Hand carried to Bill Woodruff, on the staff of
the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Intelligence Memorandum
entitled The 1969 Soviet Defense Budget. I advised Woodruff that this
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answers. I added, however, that if he had any trouble with this to let
me know and I would be happy to have Bruce Clarke go over it with him.
I told Woodruff we had been unable to schedule a meeting with
or tomorrow and it was agreed we would try to set up a new ate
which would be convenient for all parties, probably next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Alerted Woodruff to the fact that, as he had done once before, Dr. Pecora,
Director of the Geological Survey, would like to talk with him soon in areas
involving compartmented information and Pecora's assistant, Mr. Sibert,
would be calling him in the next day or so. Woodruff recalled the prior
meeting with Director Pecora,and said he would be happy to talk with him again.
4. I I Picked up from Dorothy Fosdick, Staff
Director of the Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations,
some material from the Soviet Diplomatic Dictionary on the subject of Com-
munist diplomacy. Miss Fosdick has asked if we would be good enough to
translate one page of this directory for inclusion in a report by the Sub-
committee. I told her we would be happy to do so. She asked that we also
review several other pages, which she included, for other information of
interest.
5. I I Talked with C. B. Morrison, on the staff of
Senator Allen Ellender . , La. ), and arranged to return the first reel of
the Senator's film tomorrow. Morrison said the Senator had also indicated
that he would be happy to talk with our people about his trip at a mutually
convenient time. We are to be in touch with Miss Marihelen Horneman,
the Senator's personal secretary, to set a date and time.
6. At his request, I dropped by to see Jim Gehrig,
Staff Director. of the Senate Space Committee, and reviewed with him the
facts regarding Soyuz 4 and 5. Gehrig indicated interest in visiting the
Agency and a briefing by our people to be updated on the status of the Soviet
programs. We are working with FMSA.C to establish a convenient date
sometime during the week of 27 January.
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Thursday - 16 January 1969
7. Jay Sourwine, Chief Counsel, Special Sub-
committee on Internal Security, returned to me the publication entitled
Restless Youth which we had made available to him previously.
During the course of my visit with Sourwine, he talked by long
distance telephone to Director Millikan of the Massachusetts Institute of
STATOTHR Technology (MIT) on the case of Mr. Sourwine sub- STATOTHR
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Arms ontrol and Disarmament agency (A. orking for MIT as a consultant on unclassified matters but had
raise with ACDA the possibility that MIT might want to involve
in certain classified aspects of this work if the question of his security
clearance could be resolved. According to Sourwine, ACDA then consulted
with Assistant Secretary of State Katzenbach, who presumably made a
"determination" with regard to clearance. All of this was STATOTHR
supposedly purely anticipatory and advisory in nature. Sourwine says
that now MIT proposes to raise these issues officially.
In response to my query, Mr. Sourwine said that Senator Eastland
has reintroduced his ominbus amendments. to. the Internal Security Act
in exactly the same form in which his bill was introduced in the last
Congress. It is their strategy to amend the new bill in Subcommittee to
include the same amendments which were made to S. 2988 in the 90th
Congress. This will avoid the necessity for conducting additional hearings
on the bill. (This situation could affect our plans to approach Sourwine
with a suggested amendment to the bill having to do with disclosures of
information. )
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8.1 1 Met with Mr. Darrell St. Claire,
Chief Clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, and received
from him copies of the President's supplemental Budget Message and
other information relating to the proposed executive pay increase. Mr.
St. Claire was most courteous in his assistance and stated his personal
pleasure on the continuance of Mr. Helms as Director of the Agency.
9. I I Paul Evans, Office of Security, called
to inform us that I I who is being processed for
a staff position, has given Senators Margaret Chase Smith (R. , Maine) and
Edmund Muskie (D., Maine) as references.
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Wednesday - 15 January 1969
5 I I Henry Thomas, Office of Security, called
and asked if we would be willing to contact William Woodruff, on the
staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee, again to alert him to the
fact that the Department of Interior Geological Survey, officials would
like to talk with him with regard to the program carried on by the
Geological Survey which involves sensitive compartmented information.
I told Thomas that I would be glad to talk with Woodruff to alert him to
a call from Geological Survey officials.
6. I I Met with Mr. Wade Isaacs, Adminis-
trative Assistant to Representative David E. Satterfield (D. , Va.), concerning
the report we had received from i_ hat the Congressman and his
Administrative Assistant and Legislative Assistant would be interested in
visiting the Agency. standing and is a close
personal friend of the] I
and decided that it would be best if the Congressman visited the Agency oy
himself. Mr. Satterfield has a back problem and had just gone to Richmond
for treatment and Isaacs said he would get in touch with me to suggest a
convenient time for the visit to the Agency and topics in which Mr. Satterfield
would be particularly interested.
7. Met with George Armstrong, in the
office of Representative John M. Ashbrook (R. , Ohio), in connection with
their interest in receiving a He
explained that Mr. Ashbrook emp a a
congressman and in this connection uses inserts in the Congressional Record
as a primary means in fulfilling this responsibility. I explained that we would
be happy to give them a but wanted him to
know that we print only a limited number. o tar LITEy ave not inserted STATSPEC
into the Record, but wanted to know how such material would
be attribute nowing that it should I said I would
check to see if we could come up with some ideas on this and would be back
in touch. Armstrong said that they were elated with the prospects of a
Republican Administration, but that they were not happy with some of the
appointments which have been made and could be expected to be outspoken
critics of the Administration on policies with which they disagree.
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